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Job 17:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 17:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 [a]Lay down now, and put me in surety for thee: who is he, that [b]will touch mine hand?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from [c]understanding: therefore shalt thou not set them up on high.
5 [d]For the eyes of his children shall fail, that speaketh flattery to his friends.
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- Job 17:3 He reasoneth with God as a man beside himself, to the intent that his cause might be brought to light.
- Job 17:3 And answers for thee?
- Job 17:4 That these mine afflictions are thy just judgments, though man know not the cause.
- Job 17:5 He that flattereth a man, and only judgeth him happy in his prosperity, shall not himself only but in his posterity be punished.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
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